in true psychoanalyst fashion weejay asked "Anyone else maimed their parents?". No, not me but on one very memorable occasion I got close to causing severe injury in an act of such a foolhardy nature I still shudder to when I think of it. I was young, maybe ...maybe to young and my Parents took myself & my brother for a holiday near a ski resort (which was an odd choice as it was summer at the time). Us youngsters decided that the mountain we were staying by needed climbing, so one summery morning we set off dressed in our matching cardigans in case it got a bit nippy near the summit. There's was no real plan of how we were going to tackle this towering peak so we simply started in the deserted carpark and followed the ski lift upwards. At some stage my parents spotted that we had gone awol and set off to find us. To cut a long story short it got a bit misty, Mum wanted to call out the mountain rescue people and Dad nearly fell down some sort of crevice before we got "rescued" Needless to say we weren't greeted as all conquering mountaineers when we eventually got back to the Hotel. And while I'm totally embarrassing myself, there was once a misguided April fools joke featuring a bar of soap, a toilet brush and several drawing pins but that's probably best left to everyone's imaginations. Time to move on before you all decide that I'm horrid and start hurriedly composing rules to delete my mails on receipt. Ok the only other remotely topical thing I've got to say is that while Dundee might have it's detractors (I haven't been there so it'd be cheeky of me to comment either way) Mick Jagger once called the city of Invercargill, New Zealand the "arsehole of the world". Hmmm , I can't help but think of a quaint old saying that features several items of crockery and the colour black. My apologies to your modems for forcing them to download such drivel. Also sorry about the lack of B&S and cheese content. Bysies, Craig xox +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+